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Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Louise Bak's 2003 Art Top Eleven (links by SM):
- Getting an early-read of Philip Monk's new book "Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon". I think it will be a critical surprise when it is released in 2004 from The Power Plant and The AGYU.
- Guy Maddin's Cowards Bend The Knee was the most splendidly sordid video installation at The Power Plant.
- Will Munro and Jeremy Laing's performance at Zsa Zsa, that involved multiple erogenous appendages and orifices was a pure delight.
- Bjork's outdoor concert on Olympic Island. Even her twee "thank-you" after each song was otherworldly.
- Virtual Clearcut by Brian Fawcett was one of the most touching books I've read in a long time.
- Christine Duncan's sound poetry performance in the annual Musicwork's fundraiser (at the Gladstone).(anyone got a good link for Christine Duncan? please post a comment -ed)
- Jeremy Deller's lecture at the Power Plant. The range of his folk/vernacular interests, ranging from aging burlesque workers to acid brass combinations was eccentric and inspiring.
- Chester Brown's "Louis Riel" (Drawn and Quarterly). A comic-strip biography, that is an entertaining and extensively researched account of the life of one of the country's most shadowy historical figures.
- A.A. Bronson's "The Quick and the Dead" at The Power Plant.
- Young and Sexy's "Life through One Speaker," Peaches' "Fatherfucker," Outkast's "Speakerboxx", were at the top of my play-list. I also re-visited Elliot Smith's "either/or" in my sadness, when I heard he committed suicide at 34.
- The limo-ride with pornstar Ron Jeremy, (as the last gal he saw) before he returned to L.A.
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Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Kelly Richardson's 2003 Art Top Ten (links by SM):
- The Innocents - Taryn Simon at KW, Berlin, Germany
- The Weather Project - Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern, London, UK (distracting sputtering smoke machines aside)
- I want I want a group show curated by Alistair Robinson at Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (fantasy landscapes, longing and willful escapism what's not to like?)
- A video that I saw of Francis Gomilas up in Newcastle, UK (I wasn't clever enough to ferret out a title at the time, sorry)
- David Hoffos installation for the Sobeys award at AGNS, Halifax
- David Shrigley's billboard commission for the Gloucester Road Underground station, London, UK
- Vagamundo Ricardo Miranda Zunigas video game that parallels the plight of undocumented immigrant labor in New York City. Have a go!
- Festival Times 2003 a group show at Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Atlas - Gerhard Richter at Whitechapel, London, UK
- Eric Fensler's G I Joe public service announcements (I think they've been around for a while but I saw them this year so...I also dont know if they qualify as art but I dont care, it's my list - get your own) ( hooray! LOVE these also -ed)
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Ken Montague's Top 10 art list (no particular order)(links by SM):
Ken says: "You wanted it, and you got it...peace + love, k."
- Bjork / Outdoor concert on Olympic Island (fireworks. sublime.)
- The Simple Life, starring Paris Hilton / Episode 1 (it's the only one I've seen, but it was beyond funny.)
- Snapshot Now @ Jamie Angell Gallery (Jamie's best group show ever)
- Elizabeth McIntosh @ Greener Pastures (get pregnant, get happy... beautiful work)
- 20 Years of Run-DMC @ eyejammie / Chelsea, NY (nostalgic.)
- Opening of DIA Beacon / Beacon, NY (heavyweight art. especially the Richard Serras.)
- Development of the "Hospital District" on Queen West (especially the re-opening of wonderful Luft on Ossington, Clint Roenisch's smart new venture, and Stephen Bulger's clean, modernist space - "better fits" for all... )
- New Saatchi Gallery, County Hall / London (neat, old-school interior space for showing new British art)
- Janet Cardiff @ Louisiana, Copenhagen (perfect environment for her sound experiments.)
- A.A. Bronson @ The Power Plant (Barr Gilmore did a good thing.)
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Dave Dyment's Top Ten
- best exhibition: tom sachs at the deutsche guggenheim
- best group show : soundtracks at blackwood, AGO, power plant, etc.
- best retrospective: christian marclay at bard college
- best show i didn’t actually see: pierre bismuth at the AGYU
- best record : the hidden cameras’ « the smell of our own »
- best single : outkast’s « roses »
- best live show : radiohead at the ACC (do you mean skydome? -ed)
- best film still not released : larry clark and harmony korine’s « ken park »
- best sitcom : the BBC’s « the office »
- best shows to look fwd to in 2004: mark lombardi at the AGO, john kormeling at the power plant, mark leckey at mercer union, rodney graham at the AGO
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Anthony Easton's Top Ten
Anthony says: "Living in the hinterlands, most of this top ten is found via the web and magazines, and my trips to Seattle and Vancouver in May."
- Johnny Cash-Bauhaus Coffee Shop- Seattle
A show of half pop, half folk work inspired by Johnny Cash (foot by foot paintings of stars, targets, guns and dollar bills) it could have been cute, or hipster obvious or just a little over cooked, but 6 months before his death, it seemed a prescient, tender memorial. There were at least two dozen of these, hung on every spare wall, hung in twos or threes or even alone, in red, blue, white or silver--like all that was good and pure about America forced into these tiny canvasses. Even if it was not really about Mr Cash, it would have been amazing.
- The Anniversary Party-1.6 gallery-Vancouver
A group show from new graduates at Simon Fraser University, some of it was clichéd (a gas station like a beacon in the dark night) but most of it was really wonderful in how it looked and what it said. There was the large C-Print of an Andy Warhol billboard looking over Sunset boulevard like a bemused God, and then there was the tiny Susan Bozic black and white of three hollywood signs, rotting from decay, that was technically gorgeous, and hidden in a back room.
- Bernadette Phan-Equinox-Bau Xi-Vancouver.
Organic forms over power canvases, some as small as my palm, some 6 feet tall. A wonderful flowering over, could have been decorative, but the colours were too challenging, and it could have been twee, but the gestural rawness of the mark making betrayed that, it could have been ab-ex but she was having too much fun. The best thing about it was the delicate tension between these three elements.
- Vicky Christou-Untitled- Tracy Lawrence-Vancouver.
White tick marks on a wood board, to show how much time art takes, and how performance is as important as the finished work; graphite grey blobs on canvas, which are the best textured pieces I have seen in years, and other white on white works, which remind me of how varied such limited practices could be.
- Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay - I am A Boy Band-Edmonton Art Gallery-Edmonton
The concept here is insanely simple, a man dressed as a boy band sings a 16th century English madigral. But its funny, erotic, deeply aware of precedent and part of an avant garde sound show in the last bastion of modernism.
- Chris Gergly-The Apartment Series-
More C Prints from Vancouver, which seems to be the favourite medium of that city, these apartment buildings were for swinging singles, married couples on the prowl, newly liberated gay men and young kids doing vague and artistic things for money. To cross the threshold into field stone, broad carpets, slick wood, gold letters and steel elevators was to own the world for a while. There is an immutable sadness in the lack of care that marks them and by extension this paradise on the Coast.
- Richard Prince-Nurse Paintings-Art Forum, Sadie Coles HQ London.
The pieces in reproduction have an intimate destruction, printed they seem to recycle themselves, from marred pulp to high art, thanks to post consumer paper. In life though I imagine the work to be much different, they are huge, 6 feet by 4 feet, 5 feet by 3 feet, 6. 5 feet by 5 feet. They are the size of men who live them. They would intimidate those who are smaller. (Center for Nursing Advocacy responds to the show here.-ed)
- Palaeolithic Sculpture found in Southern Germany
It's 30,000 years old, and so it's a little perverse to have them on a top ten list for this year, but we did not know they existed until very recently. Delicate ivory carvings of women, men, animals, and most excitingly the first depiction of anthropomorphism. The work makes me wonder if we can call them totems, if the work had a ritual function outside it's obvious aestheic care, and whether these questions matter now.
- Grayson Perry, Tate, London
My first reaction to him winning the Turner was Yeah-pottery! I deeply care about this kind of work, and thought that it was a triumph of craft over art, but then I thought a bit and realized the politics of Emin, Lucas, Hirst and the Chapmans is the same politics as Perry, and he won for his gender bending alter ego Claire. But they are really excellent pots, and he is one of the better embroiders recently.
- Ryan McGinley, work for Vice, New York and Montreal.
He is easy and loose and fun, handsome boys fucking and laughing and playing about, rock stars in hotel rooms, the details that others miss-like the shade of green in a hoodie or the curve of haunch, or a sock being pulled off a foot, or the beauty in door frames, slag heaps, details of urbanity that only a citizen of the urban space would grok.
